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Nicolás Wiggenhauser

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Passionate to understand the #evolution of #intelligence and #learning in #primates. PhD candidate @stonybrooku. #EvolNeuro #SciComm #DataViz ~ Mental Warrior.

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I am a biological anthropologist specialized in the evolution of intelligence in animals. At the intersection of Neuroscience, Evolutionary Biology, and Biological Anthropology, my research is focused on the evolutionary path and adaptive importance of the most complex biological structure ever studied in science: the brain. I apply comparative neuroanatomy and phylogenetic methods to understand how evolution and the environment have shaped and organized the brain. My passion is to discover how…

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The deep and enigmatic evolution of sleep: How learning about animal sleep will help us improve o...

The deep and enigmatic evolution of sleep: How learning about animal sleep will help us improve o...

We sleep a third of our lives. Sleep is a crucial brain activity that makes cognition, memory, and learning p…

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Opening Pandora's genetic box: Cephalopods' brains, another way of thinking outside the box

Opening Pandora's genetic box: Cephalopods' brains, another way of thinking outside the box

Studying the full array of diversity nature offers to enhance adaptation will contribute to our understanding…

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Finding a place for your Visualization: Understanding the interactions between Form and Function

Finding a place for your Visualization: Understanding the interactions between Form and Function

Every type of data visualization, from charts to infographics, must balance form and function. Visuals that p…

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The Best Ways to Produce Effective and Appealing Data Visualizations

The Best Ways to Produce Effective and Appealing Data Visualizations

At some point in our lives, we all heard the adage, “An image is worth a thousand words.” Of course, visuals …

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Get to know the fascinating galaxy that you have inside your head

Get to know the fascinating galaxy that you have inside your head

In my previous post, The evolution of intelligence: Do we know how to study it?, I have proposed an operative…

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The evolution of intelligence: Do we know how to study it?

The evolution of intelligence: Do we know how to study it?

It is 2017. A 26-year-old me was exploring New York City for the very first time. As a biological anthropolog…

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How learning about animal sleep will help us improve our...

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By Nicolás Wiggenhauser
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We sleep a third of our lives. Sleep is a crucial brain activity that makes cognition, memory, and learning possible. But we are not the only ones. All animals, from elephants to butterflies, sleep. A recent study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (Seewiesen, Germany) indicated numerous remarkable similarities among all living animal species, vertebrates and invertebrates alike, but also many striking differences.
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Cephalopods' brains, another way of thinking outside the box

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By Nicolás Wiggenhauser
| Medium
The founding father of modern biology, Charles Darwin, once said that " the difference in mental states between animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of a kind" (Darwin, 1888). A peculiar group of animals, cephalopods (comprising octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes, and nautiluses) are an ancient clade of invertebrates whose origins date more than 500 million years ago. They are the owners of an unparalleled intelligence and complex behavioral repertoire.
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Finding a place for your Visualization: Understanding the interactions between Form and Function

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By Nicolás Wiggenhauser
| stonybrook.edu
HomeThe LinkAll PostsFinding a place for your Visualization: Understanding the interactions between Form and Function Every type of data visualization, from charts to infographics, must balance form and function. Visuals that prioritize form can be stunningly beautiful but make the content more difficult to understand. Those that prioritize function can be informative, but they might be boring. Your job as a visual communicator is to find the right balance.
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